6 Surrey/North Delta Leader Thursday, June 12, 2014
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Young chair of community council by Sarah Massah
A SURREY woman has been named chair of the 2014 Fraser Valley
Youth supports youth by helping Coast Capital’s funding priorities Young Leaders Community Council, which
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P U B L I C N OT I C E
COMMUNITY CHARTER, S.B.C. 2003, CHAPTER 26 NOTICE OF INTENTION TO DISPOSE OF CITY PROPERTY SECTIONS 26 AND 94
Pursuant to Sections 26 and 94 of the Community Charter, S.B.C. 2003, Chapter 26, as amended, the City of Surrey hereby gives notice of the intention to dispose of the following RF, Single Family zoned building lot: Civic Address:
14547 – 72 Avenue, Surrey, BC
Legal Description:
PID No.: 028-122-674 Lot 1 Section 22 Township 2 NWD Plan BCP 43299;
Property Description:
The property is a ±585.1 m² (6,298 ft.²) Single Family (RF) Zone building lot located in the East North Newton NCP area, Surrey. It has service connections to municipal sanitary, storm, and water mains. A restrictive covenant covering design guidelines/house plan is registered on title for the property.
Invitation to Offers to Purchase:
The City invites offers to purchase this residential building lot. Interested persons or parties should submit their offer(s) to purchase to the City of Surrey, Engineering Department, Realty Services Division, 13450 – 104 Avenue, Surrey, BC, V3T 1V8 before 4 p.m. on Thursday, July 24, 2014. Offers received after this closing date may not be accepted or considered. Delays caused by any delivery, courier, or mail service(s) will not be grounds for an extension of the closing date. All offers should be submitted in the Offer to Purchase form of document enclosed within the Information Package referenced below.
Asking Price:
Three Hundred TwentyThousand Dollars ($320,000)
Further Information:
An Information Package can be accessed from the City’s website http://www.surrey.ca/city-government/641.aspx For further information please contact Avril Wright, Property Negotiator; Phone 604 598 5718; Fax: 604 598 5701.
The City of Surrey reserves the right to accept or reject the highest or any offer and may reject any or all offers without giving reasons therefore. The proposed sale and the terms and conditions thereof will be subject to final approval by Surrey City Council.
Coast Capital Savings’ annual community granting program. Samantha Shepherd, 26, was announced as chair at the end of last year, and has been on the council since 2012. The financial planner – who has been a Coast Capital employee for nearly five years – has always had a passion for volunteering, and found that the move to a board would allow her to make a bigger impact. “I found that the opportunities arising were one day here and one day there or being part of an event. And I
Samantha Shepherd wanted something that was a larger commitment,” she said. “And I also really wanted to get involved with a board, and receive board experience, and I also loved that it was at my work,
at Coast Capital, I was always passionate about how they gave back.” Through the council, Shepherd and the board decide which community organizations will receive grants from the yearly budget allocated to them. Out of the $1 million budget last year, $300,000 was allocated to the Fraser Valley, with the remainder divvied up between Metro Vancouver and the Island. Local organizations that benefited from the grants include Semiahmoo Animal League Inc. and Alexandra
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House, which is working towards a youth program. This year, the budget has increased by $500,000 and Shepherd said the plan is to use every last cent. “We have a focus for where we actually grant – it’s always youth or children oriented,” she said. “It’s either regarding building financial literacy, building knowledge, helping them through school, building belonging – so they have that sense of community and family, to help build self esteem and social skills.” The funding is decided through a score-card system and hours-long review process, which judges the reach of the organization, the impact, how they will measure success, how they have planned their budget and more. Finally, after scores are tabulated and averaged out. “That’s when we throw our real personal experience as to who we think should have the most funding,” Shepherd said. “It’s a consensus model, so everyone needs to agree before we move on to another grant. It’s very inclusive.” And the best part of the whole process for Shepherd is seeing firsthand how the funds have made a difference. “I’m so pleased and blessed for this opportunity. We’re providing support for youth by youth and that’s so huge to me – that’s paramount.” smassah@peacearchnews.com
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E N V I R O N M E N TA L E X T R AVA G A N Z A THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING IN SURREY’S 17TH ENVIRONMENTAL EXTRAVAGANZA! Amy Graham (at centre, with two volunteers), is will take part in this weekend’s Walk for ALS at Bear Creek park.
Walking in the name of dad Walk for ALS takes place Sunday at Bear Creek Park by Sarah Massah AMY GRAHAM walks
each year to honour of her father. The Surrey resident lost her father, Kenneth Graham, when he was 36, to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) – just two years after he was first diagnosed. “I didn’t live with my dad full-time – my parents split when I was two – but I remember everything being so different when I did get to see him. He was in a scooter and his hands were crippled. His speech was different,” Graham recalled. Graham was nine years old when her father died, and the loss had a lasting impact on
her, prompting her to volunteer with the ALS Society of B.C. She is also the co-ordinator – and a regular participant – for the People’s Drug Mart Walk for ALS, set to take place June 14 at Bear Creek Park. This year, registration for the walk takes place at 10 a.m. with the walk to follow at 11 a.m. Graham hopes to see more than 300 people walking in the park and helping raise the goal amount of $60,000. Money raised for the event goes to patient services and ALS research to find the cause and cure. For more information, visit www.walkforals.ca/bc
We are proud to offer a variety of programs and events to Surrey residents each spring, made possible by our amazing Partners: • A Rocha Canada • Better Environmentally Sound Transportation • BC Master Gardeners • Burns Bog Conservation Society • Coastal Painted Turtle Project • Darts Hill Garden Conservancy Trust Society • Evergreen • Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC • Friends of Semiahmoo Bay Society • Friends of Semiahmoo Heritage Trail • Green Club • Green Timbers Heritage Society • Historic Stewart Farm • Little Campbell Watershed Society • Lynn Pollard • Metro Vancouver Regional Parks
• Nicomekl Enhancement Society • O.W.L. Rehabilitation Society • Salmon Habitat Restoration Program (SHaRP) • Semiahmoo Fish & Game Club • Stanley Park Ecology Society • Sunnyside Acres Heritage Society • Surrey Engineering Department • Surrey Libraries • Surrey Natural Areas Partnership (SNAP) • Surrey Nature Centre at Green Timbers • Surrey Parks, Recreation & Culture Department • Surrey Youth Stewardship Squad • Village Surrey Transition Initiative • White Rock and Surrey Naturalists Society • Wildlife Rescue Association of BC
See you next year!
smassah@peacearchnews.com
www.surrey.ca/extravaganza